One human poll makes up the 2015 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) football rankings, sometimes called the NAIA Coaches' Poll or the football ratings. When the regular season is complete, the NAIA plans to sponsor a playoff to determine the year's national champion. A final poll will be taken after completion of the 2015 NAIA Football National Championship.
Poll release dates The poll release dates are scheduled to be:
2015 Poll Release Dates Spring April 13 Preseason August 10 Week 1 September 14 Week 2 September 21 Week 3 September 28 Week 4 October 5 Week 5 October 12 Week 6 October 19 Week 7 October 26 Week 8 November 2 Week 9 November 9 Week 10 (Final Regular Season) November 15 Postseason December 21
Week by week rankings
+ Legend No change in ranking Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week NAIA National Champion| - style="text-align:center;"|(т) Tied with team above or below also with this symbol
Leading vote-getters Since the inception of the Coaches' Poll in 1999, the #1 ranking in the various weekly polls has been held by only a select group of teams. Through the end of 2015, the team and the number of times they have held the #1 weekly ranking are shown below. The number of times a team has been ranked #1 in the postseason poll (the national champion) is shown in parentheses.
There has been only one tie for the leading vote-getter in a weekly poll. In 2015, Southern Oregon was tied with Marian (IN) in the preseason poll.
In 1999, the results of a postseason poll, if one was conducted, are not known. Therefore, an additional poll was presumed, and the #1 postseason ranking has been credited to the postseason tournament champion, the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers.
TeamTotal #1 RankingsCarroll (MT)57 (6)55 (3)25 (2)2014 (1)Marian (IN)12 (2)Northwestern Oklahoma State12 (1)Southern Oregon5 (1)4 (1)43Saint Francis (IN)32
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